Donald Ray Pollock Quotes
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When Occupy Wall Street happened, I took my money out of Citibank. I already had problems with all the banks - Citibank, Bank of America - but I was kind of just too lazy to take my money out until I saw how Citibank responded to Occupy Wall Street.
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But since we've been fighting for first or second place, it's grabbed the media's attention. I enjoy racing them. They are a good team and when you beat them it's something to be proud of.
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The nature and the DNA of IMAX has been redefined in the past years to shoot these huge blockbusters. But I think that it's not the sole purpose of IMAX to capture cars exploding in your face.
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I have an iPod, but I put my music in it from my CDs, and then I have that CD in my library.
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As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.'
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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I eat vegetarian a lot. I buy only fresh ingredients and cook from scratch - that way, when I feel like snacking and look in my fridge, it's: 'Oh, baby carrots or chocolate soy pudding. Take your pick.'
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Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn't have had this passion to be a rider.
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There are actors who aren't on the cover of magazines but still decide what work they want and when they want it. I want a family one day. So I dream of really being able to decide when to work and when not to.
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I always think I have a chance, and I always give it all I've got.
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I now possess the tools as a producer and a songwriter to really just go out and make smashes all day long. I could make an album full of smash records that got pop appeal. But my heart is in hip-hop. My heart is in telling stories. And it's like therapy for me.
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What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
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Whenever I cook, I think of Spanish music, so I always have to listen to some sort of salsa. It gets your body going.
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A Bond girl must be a strong and independent woman, but at the same time charming and sensual. Those opposite qualities combined together make her interesting. She must be strong but at the same time feminine.
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Everybody has a smartphone; everyone is a reporter.
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Sosias: The love of wine is a good man's failing. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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I don't wish to go down to posterity talking bad grammar.
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I think chocolate in moderation is not bad for you, but I eat way too much. I tell myself I'm going to eat two squares, and then I end up eating half a big bar.
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In my day, people didn't do nude scenes. I mean they didn't exist.
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Make something new, and define territory that's never been. I fall in love with shows because I've never see that before. I fall in love with new vocabularies.
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I was always a big reader, even when everything was bad and miserable.
